Title:Income-Distribution and Infant-Mortality
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Author(s):WALDMANN, RobertDate:1992Citation:Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1992, 107, 4, 1283-1302Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Comparing two countries in which the poor have equal real incomes, the one in which the rich are wealthier is likely to have a higher infant mortality rate. This anomalous result does not appear to spring from measurement ...